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Q91.

Consider the string abbccddeee. Each letter in the string must be assigned a binary code satisfying the following properties: For any two letters, the code assigned to one letter must not be a prefix of the code assigned to the other letter. For any two letters of the same frequency, the letter which occurs earlier in the dictionary order is assigned a code whose length is at most the length of the code assigned to the other letter. Among the set of all binary code assignments which satisfy the above two properties, what is the minimum length of the encoded string?
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Q92.

Huffman tree is constructed for the following data :{A,B,C,D,E} with frequency {0.17, 0.11, 0.24, 0.33 and 0.15} respectively. 100 00 01101 is decoded as
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Q93.

Consider the weights and values of items listed below. Note that there is only one unit of each item. The task is to pick a subset of these items such that their total weight is no more than 11 Kgs and their total value is maximized. Moreover, no item may be split. The total value of items picked by an optimal algorithm is denoted by V_{opt}. A greedy algorithm sorts the items by their value-to-weight ratios in descending order and packs them greedily, starting from the first item in the ordered list. The total value of items picked by the greedy algorithm is denoted by V_{greedy}. The value of V_{opt}-V_{greedy} is ____________.
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Q94.

A message is made up entirely of characters from the set X= {P,Q,R,S,T}. The table of probabilities for each of the characters is shown below: If a message of 100 characters over X is encoded using Huffman coding, then the expected length of the encoded message in bits is_____
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Q95.

Suppose P, Q, R, S, T are sorted sequences having lengths 20, 24, 30, 35, 50 respectively. They are to be merged into a single sequence by merging together two sequences at a time. The number of comparisons that will be needed in the worst case by the optimal algorithm for doing this is ____.
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Q96.

Consider the following table: Match the algorithms to the design paradigms they are based on.
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Q97.

Consider a job scheduling problem with 4 jobs J_1, J_2, J_3 and J_4 with corresponding deadlines: (d_1, d_2, d_3, d_4) = (4, 2, 4, 2). Which of the following is not a feasible schedule without violating any job schedule?
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Q98.

Consider n jobs J_1, J_2 \dots J_n such that job J_i has execution time t_i and a non-negative integer weight w_i. The weighted mean completion time of the jobs is defined to be \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}w_iT_i}{\sum_{i=1}^{n}w_i}, where T_i is the completion time of job J_i. Assuming that there is only one processor available, in what order must the jobs be executed in order to minimize the weighted mean completion time of the jobs?
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Q99.

The minimum number of record movements required to merge five files A (with 10 records), B (with 20 records), C (with 15 records), D (with 5 records) and E (with 25 records) is:
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Q100.

Suppose the letters a, b, c, d, e, f have probabilities 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/32 respectively. Which of the following is the Huffman code for the letter a, b, c, d, e, f?
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